I'm going to attempt the week again this year, although this time I'll do it in work. I can do most of my work in the TTY, will still need a browser for MS Teams and some other work apps. I can use my Windows laptop for that though... unless that's counted as cheating?

Sometimes I'll not even run `startx' simply because I don't need XMonad running to do anything. Had run two mosh sessions to different homeservers under tmux just yesterday to copy some files and mess with partitions, as well as manage said copied files on the other server, bulkrenaming them through ranger.

Last year the hinge on this laptop broke and I sent it in for repairs. Whipped out a 13yo laptop my mom used in Mexico and installed Arch Linux 32 on it. The thing isn't capable enough to run Firefox or Chromium, and mpv was only able to play 144p 3gp videos at an acceptable speed, so I spent the week and a half on a tty running weechat, mps-yt, ncmpcpp, and lynx under tmux. It worked just fine, and while browsing was a hassle, I didn't need to do much of that.

One thing it can't do is CJK symbols, which is a shame.

As I already do things on terminal windows no matter what, the only thing I learned from that is that it is a real pain to use tmux for copy/pasting.

Actually seems plausible for me to attempt it this year. Barely leave my tex document and python/matplotlib anyway at the moment.
My concession will be zathura for pdfs, unless anybody knows of a tty alternative...

I mean, yeah, I could use that... But it's not really ideal when formatting matters and there are tables, figures and equations. It also doesn't work for whatever formatting method the people that wrote their papers used...

I could try printing papers (to paper) and not compiling my own tex docs until the tty week is over :)